Songs where the songwriter confuses A with B

Well he could be half-right.

Except when he wrote that, he'd never been to England Anything.

Hold the press!

There's an England Town in Texas.

Maybe he was unlucky with the weather.

With Frampton comes Alive 2, Peter Frampton confused the general public with someone who gives a shit.

in hey hey, my my neil young confuses sid vicious with johnny rotten:

The king is gone but he's not forgotten
Is this the story of Johnny Rotten?
It's better to burn out than it is to rust
The king is gone but he's not forgotten

Even if you change the line to the right show, what exactly are Brooklyn Academy getting at there? I'm sure I would have heard about an episode of Seinfeld in which Kramer had "niggaz in his mouth".

PLEASE, NOBODY LINK TO THAT FUCKING THREAD.

In "Paranoid", Ozzy confuses paranoia with depression.

In "Return of the Crooklyn Dodgers" Jeru confuses Manuel Noriega being captured for Manuel Noriega being killed.

In today's high tech world where almost everything is remote controlled, it's difficult to image life without batteries, but let's be honest, batteries are not a product that immediately create an emotional response.

In Duracell's case however, that is exactly what happened when the company introduced Duracell Bunny to the world.

It began in 1973, when breakthrough advertising was developed to communicate that Duracell alkaline batteries lasted much longer in than ordinary and inexpensive zinc carbon batteries. A small pink, fluffy bunny was created, who, powered by Duracell batteries, was able to outlast all others in an array of colourful challenges.

The Duracell Bunny made his debut appearance in the US 35 years ago, in a commercial that included a group of drum-banging pink bunnies. The winner was the Duracell Drumming Bunny, the message was loud and clear - powered by the long-lasting Duracell battery, he's unstoppable.

From 1973 through to 1980, the Duracell Bunny starred in a toy campaign, which was later rolled out around the world.

Throughout his successful career, the Duracell Bunny has embarked on numerous sports and cultural activities :

He excels on drums which he has been practicing since 1973
With unparalleled endurance, the Bunny's a natural at skiing, kayaking, boxing, football and marathons; he always performs at the top.

For over 33 years, Duracell has followed a coherent advertising strategy continuing to evolve the bunny to keep up with the consistent improvements in quality and power of Duracell batteries. 35 years old, 35 years of high performance and the Duracell Bunny is still going strong.

Today the Duracell Bunny is one of the Top Advertising Icons of the 20th Century.

The Duracell advertising strategy has now changed. The Duracell Bunny does not want to compete any longer with Zinc-Carbon Bunnies, as the Zinc Carbon category is less and less important. The Duracell Bunny has now come to the real world to highlight the power of the new formula of the best Duracell ever, Duracell Ultra AA / AAA.

Damn Duracell Bunny was a wind-up toy anyroad!

just to get back to the Dead Milkmen/Beach Boys controversy...

The BB cover was HUGE and I thought it was there song for years. I also remember seeing the MTV video a lot.

So I don't think the Dead Milkmen were mistaken.

I think the Neil Young line is more a question. Let's say:
Is this[, too,] the story of Johnny Rotten?
Record released '79, recorded '78, before PiL, basically.

It also really implies Rotten v. Presley.

In Ghostface's song "The Drummer", he yells, "When Biggie died, they came out with Biggie fries!" Wendy's introduced the Biggie fry several years before the death of the Notorious B.I.G.

Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is actually about the horror genre.

On "It's Never That Easy Though, Is It? (Song For The Other Kurt)", Los Campesinos! confused "ringtones" with "dialling tones"

In "Being Boiled" by Human League Phil Oakey confuses Buddhism with Hinduism.

Where does that happen?

Geto Boys, "My Mind Playing Tricks On Me":

I often drift while I drive
Havin fatal thoughts of suicide
Bang and get it over with
And then Im worry-free, but thats bullshit
I got a little boy to look after
And if I died then my child would be a bastard

A child's father being alive or not has nothing to do with his bastard status.

From the musical Hair (with the hit by the Cowsills) referring to having long hair:

"It's not for lack of bread, like the Grateful Dead."

In fact the Grateful Dead were very successful financially by that point, and could easily have afforded haircuts!

Maybe they mean the actual grateful dead, God rest their souls.

Although in that case I would have submitted their being dead as the main reason why they haven't gotten haircuts.

"Then someone played a BEACH BOYS song on the jukebox, it was "California Dreamin'" - wtf???

in "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," Beyonce seems to be under the impression either men really like women's fingers, or that they put wedding rings somewhere other than on their finger.

that post makes even less sense than the song

Single Ladies (Put A Sock In It)
Single Ladies (Put A Donk On It)
Single Ladies (Throw Some D's On It)

I shouldn't have laughed at that, but I did

And if I died then my child would be a bastard

A child's father being alive or not has nothing to do with his bastard status.

Unless you read this as "my child would turn into a bastard of a person if I died." (Which I don't.)

In "Being Boiled" by Human League Phil Oakey confuses Buddhism with Hinduism.

Where does that happen?

Er, pretty much in the very first line. From http://www.league-online.com/beingboiled.html ...

Academics were mystified and intrigued by the bizarre lyrics of silkworm torture and Phil admitted that it was all down to religious confusion on his his part as he explains here: '...I'd got some religions mixed up and I thought that like Buddhism was the same as Hinduism, and it was sort of a plea for vegertarism really against killing the silkworms to make socks or something? I got really confused about it.'

A child's father being alive or not has nothing to do with his bastard status.

― өөө (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, January 3, 2009 4:07 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

ya honestly i've always read that as "my son will turn out to be a dick if he grows up in the streets without my guidance"

A great song title by Luna:

"We're Both Confused"

Pavement's "Give It A Day":
"Increase Mather told her Dad, 'I roundly disagree with you'"

Increase Mather was a man.

REM: "Laocoön, and her two sons"

Laocoön and his two sons:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/17/Laocoon_Pio-Clementino_Inv1059-1064-1067.jpg/570px-Laocoon_Pio-Clementino_Inv1059-1064-1067.jpg

That's what dropping out of art school will do for you, I guess...

In "Being Boiled" by Human League Phil Oakey confuses Buddhism with Hinduism.

Where does that happen?

Er, pretty much in the very first line. From http://www.league-online.com/beingboiled.html ...

Academics were mystified and intrigued by the bizarre lyrics of silkworm torture and Phil admitted that it was all down to religious confusion on his his part as he explains here: '...I'd got some religions mixed up and I thought that like Buddhism was the same as Hinduism, and it was sort of a plea for vegertarism really against killing the silkworms to make socks or something? I got really confused about it.'

― Special topics: Disco, The Common Market (grimly fiendish)

Cheers - that's all cleared up then.

On "Ice Cream", Raekwon the Chef confuses rape, the form of sexual assault, with a medical procedure.

In "Key Largo," when Bertie Higgins evokes the shared experience of the Bogart & Bacall characters in the movie Key Largo he confuses an idyllic romantic excursion with a terrifying hostage ordeal.

How would those Human League lyrics make sense even if he were talking about Hinduism?

(Maybe that's what moley was getting at?)

in "my president is black", nas confuses diameter and circumference in comparing the relative sizes of hulk hogan's arms and the rims on barack obama's car.

In "Allentown," Billy Joel confuses "graduations" with "diplomas"

In "Smooth Operator," Sade confuses Chicago with a city on the East Coast.

In "Kids In America," Kim Wilde confuses "East California" with the other side of the state.

Done this on another thread, but The Congos seem to be under the impression that the Ark of the Covenant contained many pairs of animals rather than the Ten Commandments, Aaron's Rod and manna.

I'll defend "graduations" as some attempt at poetry - this big major event of their lives turns out to be nothing but this flimsy piece of paper hanging on the wall. That never really helped them at all.

In "Smooth Operator," Sade confuses Chicago with a city on the East Coast.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51B6444C6WL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

to be honest I choose to view the directions in that song as discrete items:

- coast to coast
- LA to Chicago
- across the north
- south to Key Largo

which could describe a trip from Boston to LA to Chicago to Philadelphia to Florida

^ a common itinerary for pimps and other assorted operators

not sure 'east california' is wrong, she could be taking a sly dig at the residents of west california there

You know, in the "Allentown" video when BJ sings "well the graduations hang on the wall," they show a shot of those photo collages with the senior portraits, and then into a montage of more "candid" photos.

Maybe he meant a "graduation photos" in the song and just left the word off.

In "My Girls," Panda Bear mistakenly uses one's social status as an example of a material thing, rather than an abstract concept.

In "Welcome to Heartbreak," Kanye West confuses heartbreak with jealousy, as well as confusing a child's report card with an item that one could reasonably describe as "brand new".

Re: "Punk Rock Girl" I think the "California Dreamin'" mix up is intentionally inaccurate.

In "My Girls," Panda Bear mistakenly uses one's social status as an example of a material thing, rather than an abstract concept.

although they do both fall on the self-oriented axis of Schwartz's circumplex model of universal values. I suspect that's how they got confused.

Slayer 'Silent Scream' - "Scattered, remnants of life/ Murder, a time to die/ Pain, suffrage..."